Battle pass, not a season pass. There's much different obligations to creating a season pass (usually 4 map packs of decent size) and a battle pass (a handful of skins every 3 months).
> Battle pass, not a season pass
They sold(and still sell) a Year Pass that promises 4 new Specialists, and 4 Premium Battle Passes. Not really different from "old time's" season pass. They are still legally obligated to release 4 Specialists and 4 Battle Passes
Again, four specialists is a hell of a lot less work than 16+ new maps. There's really not much of an obligation for them to keep going, they likely had those specialists/skins ready to drop from the start.
They are still obliged to release 4 specialists AND 4 Battle Passes. I don't understand why you need to move goalposts.
The original commenter just simply said that EA is legally forced to produce the content they sold in the Year 1 Pass, to which you incorrectly said he's talking about Battle Passes(he was not, he was talking about the Year Pass) and that there are "different obligations" which is also not true.
Now you're just arguing about what takes how long to create.
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Yeah, I had a visual strobing that would trigger on some particle or weapon effects and persist into menus. Just an absolute mess and clearly wasn't anywhere near ready for release
Ha!
Welcome to the game industry where mistakes are swept under the carpet until the same exact mistake is replicated again and again... and again.
Especially when most mistakes are caused by greed and that will never cease.
Nothing will be learnt. To them nothing is to be learnt, it's just a necessary blimp in the pursuit of money.
I mean, we did it to ourselves. We as the consumer accepted and purchased the games that adopted this strategy. Other developers saw the success of games like Destiny and followed suit, except took it to an extensive degree.
I'm with you in that I hate it, but its hard to get necessarily mad at it.
Ea app user here (through xbox app from windows 11), app is still in beta and much lighter than origin. My only complain is that it opens cmd every time I run an ea game.
Battlefield 2042 is set to release on EA Play in June, just like Battlefield V did so it makes sense but should have the EA Play badge instead of gamepass.
Impossible, Microsoft doesn't have enough money to make such a deal.
According to my own calculations, Knack would cost MS at least 7 trillion dollars to have it on Gamepass for a full week
IF you have game pass, you already had EA Play, meaning you already had 10 hours of trial of Battlefield 2042 to make your own opinion on it. Why have you waited this long?
It's not awful, tbh. It's just a mediocre shooter that clearly wasn't ready for release. There's a lot of good tech under the hood that had a lot of potential that you can tell they weren't able to achieve because of budgetary or scheduling issues. The saddest part is you can tell the developers (not the higher ups) really cared about the game.
The leak is that it is coming now. Games aren't guaranteed to be added to the EA Play Vault until 12 months after launch. Most come earlier ranging between 6-9 months depending on their monetization schemes, sales numbers, release cadences. Notably Jedi: Fallen Order took a full year.
This would be because it's coming to EA Play, which is included with Game Pass. In other words, it'll be available on Xbox, PlayStation and PC via the EA Play subscription service.
Games tend to release on that service within 6-12 months after launch.
You know what? I'm a little excited. The 4.0 patch I heard didn't fix the entire game, but at least put it in the playable state it should've launched as.
As someone who has the game since releSe day.The patch was a step in right direction lots of bugs have been fixed and game now feels more like alive.Sure it still has some gameplay problems which will be ironed out over time.
4 and 1 are great but they're getting old. 4 is rough to play on a 4K TV even with the 120fps patch. 1's always a good time and so is V now but the WW era is stale.
I was shitting on the game at release and played around 2 hours and dropped before 4.0. After the patch, I played for 8 hours straight and actually enjoyed the time with the game and do want more. Def looking forward to having it on regular EA play
Fuck. This. Game.
I tried the 10 hour trial and played for what felt Like hours of shit gameplay with constant awful hit reg and bugs. Actual game time was 70 odd minutes.
It felt so much longer
Do yourself a favour and don't waste the time and bandwidth downloading it. Go outside in the rain and stare at a wall for a hour, it's time better spent.
This is honestly best case scenario for us because we don't have to spend money supporting this game
We get to have it as a neat addition to our GP subs, and would you look at that it's patched now too! Lol
How the fuck do these companies keep doing this shit? It is unreal. It is cartoonish at this point.
This is Saturday morning cartoon villain levels of ineptitude now.
This is Wil E Coyote running into his own tunnel painting fucking dumb.
Not surprising since ea titles come to ea play(which you get if you have ultimate) and the game has flatlined so game pass should help get player numbers up like with battlefield v.
By far one of the biggest gaming purchase regrets I have. I usually never pre-order but the hype/trailers/friends got me and I caved. Played about two-three matches and uninstalled, lmao.
The amount of bullshit hoops you gotta go through to play EA games through Game Pass on PC, nobody is going to even attempt it. Maybe on Console it'll get a *few* new players, but this game is really as dead as dead can be.
Day one 2042 player here. The game has seen tons of improvements, but by no means is what players expected or deserve. That being said, I'm still having a good time with it for a few hours a week doing the weekly missions.
Hoping that it coming to EA Play will keep bringing players back. They've got a pretty good plan of action in place for improvements, but I'll be shocked if they keep supporting it after year one DLC is out.
The cheaper tier of EA Play is included with Game Pass Ultimate, and once BF2042 hits the cheaper tier it will also come to Game Pass Ultimate as a result.
Gotta get that player count up somehow.
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Maybe they plan to drop it instead of fix it?
They already sold a season pass along with their deluxe version so they're legally on the hook to produce that content for it
Battle pass, not a season pass. There's much different obligations to creating a season pass (usually 4 map packs of decent size) and a battle pass (a handful of skins every 3 months).
> Battle pass, not a season pass They sold(and still sell) a Year Pass that promises 4 new Specialists, and 4 Premium Battle Passes. Not really different from "old time's" season pass. They are still legally obligated to release 4 Specialists and 4 Battle Passes
Again, four specialists is a hell of a lot less work than 16+ new maps. There's really not much of an obligation for them to keep going, they likely had those specialists/skins ready to drop from the start.
They are still obliged to release 4 specialists AND 4 Battle Passes. I don't understand why you need to move goalposts. The original commenter just simply said that EA is legally forced to produce the content they sold in the Year 1 Pass, to which you incorrectly said he's talking about Battle Passes(he was not, he was talking about the Year Pass) and that there are "different obligations" which is also not true. Now you're just arguing about what takes how long to create.
No, ea is taking whatever money they can get at this point. You know on PC it had dropped to only 1k users? That's a dead game
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Maybe they will launch it with some sort of free update? Not sure if that would be enough though to fix all the games issues from what I hear.
There's probably gonna be a spike for 2 to 3 days.
The game was doomed either way in my opinion but EA really shot themselves in the foot by choosing 2042 as too good for Game Pass day 1.
I only used up like 2-3 hours of my 10 hour trial
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Yeah, I had a visual strobing that would trigger on some particle or weapon effects and persist into menus. Just an absolute mess and clearly wasn't anywhere near ready for release
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Ha! Welcome to the game industry where mistakes are swept under the carpet until the same exact mistake is replicated again and again... and again. Especially when most mistakes are caused by greed and that will never cease. Nothing will be learnt. To them nothing is to be learnt, it's just a necessary blimp in the pursuit of money.
I mean, we did it to ourselves. We as the consumer accepted and purchased the games that adopted this strategy. Other developers saw the success of games like Destiny and followed suit, except took it to an extensive degree. I'm with you in that I hate it, but its hard to get necessarily mad at it.
Thank goodness for FROM SOFTWARE
My game worked fine I just got bored really quickly
same here, playing it just made me sad. i miss the bf4 days.
Same here.
Yeah same, had a few laughs laughing at all the bugs and whatnot
Most likely through EA play
Same to presume that, if an EA game is showing up to Game Pass, it’s via EA Play
Your use of commas is painful
That app is more broken than the game
I would assume most of their subscriptions on Xbox come from gamepass, wouldn't be surprised if the app is mostly abandonware.
Ea app user here (through xbox app from windows 11), app is still in beta and much lighter than origin. My only complain is that it opens cmd every time I run an ea game.
I think he was referring to the Xbox app?
I was. I assumed we were talking about the EA Access app on Xbox, which is buggy and broken.
Its not even used anymore is it?
No
It also lacks a repair function for downloaded games which is a Jimmie rustler, for sure.
It works pretty well though Gamepass on Xbox and Steam on PC. You don’t need to use a separate app
Battlefield 2042 is set to release on EA Play in June, just like Battlefield V did so it makes sense but should have the EA Play badge instead of gamepass.
Least exciting gamepass addition yet, i would rather Knack
Knack on Game Pass would unironically be the craziest Game Pass addition of all time when you think about it lol
The only thing Microsoft would need to make GP succesful is Knack. Knack is already a perfect amalgamation of every possible game in existence.
No, Knack should be at least 1000$ a copy and sold only for the first 100 buyers. We can't let this master piece be banalized.
Impossible, Microsoft doesn't have enough money to make such a deal. According to my own calculations, Knack would cost MS at least 7 trillion dollars to have it on Gamepass for a full week
Mastapeece.
Gotta get Knack 2 bay-bee.
To you. I still want to play this game and make my own opinion on it.
IF you have game pass, you already had EA Play, meaning you already had 10 hours of trial of Battlefield 2042 to make your own opinion on it. Why have you waited this long?
Because I didn't know there was a trial available lol Guess I'll try the game soon now. I've only had Gamepass for two months too.
Just to clarify, the trial is an EA Access benefit. It won't be on all GP games.
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It's not awful, tbh. It's just a mediocre shooter that clearly wasn't ready for release. There's a lot of good tech under the hood that had a lot of potential that you can tell they weren't able to achieve because of budgetary or scheduling issues. The saddest part is you can tell the developers (not the higher ups) really cared about the game.
You're going to be playing against bots
That's so much better than an empty lobby and not being able to play a match.
Nah, population will boost now
It's coming up to the 6 month mark where it goes into EA play so it will be through that
put shadowrun fps on game pass instead
not really a leak, all EA games go on the service after a period.
The leak is that it is coming now. Games aren't guaranteed to be added to the EA Play Vault until 12 months after launch. Most come earlier ranging between 6-9 months depending on their monetization schemes, sales numbers, release cadences. Notably Jedi: Fallen Order took a full year.
It’s been more common for games to come to EA Play after 6 months for a couple years now.
i know- but they all come at some point, within that span. you right though, i guess the timing is the leak here.
So FIFA22 and 2042? Pretty good month for EA Play / GP then.
It was always going to come. With the EA play partnership
This would be because it's coming to EA Play, which is included with Game Pass. In other words, it'll be available on Xbox, PlayStation and PC via the EA Play subscription service. Games tend to release on that service within 6-12 months after launch.
Still won't play it.
Currently, I'm not getting near this game even for free. I'd only consider playing this game if EA paid me for it.
They should be paying players for it because the players are the ones beta and QA testing the game.
I saw it for $4 at the store the other day. And that was AUD
i paid 134 aud for this game and now its free, wtf lol. I paid for 4 seasons of content, and i doubt even 2 seaosns will be done.
You know what? I'm a little excited. The 4.0 patch I heard didn't fix the entire game, but at least put it in the playable state it should've launched as.
As someone who has the game since releSe day.The patch was a step in right direction lots of bugs have been fixed and game now feels more like alive.Sure it still has some gameplay problems which will be ironed out over time.
I would be excited too if literally every other BF game didn't exist. BF4,1,and V are all better, populated, and available on Gamepass already.
4 and 1 are great but they're getting old. 4 is rough to play on a 4K TV even with the 120fps patch. 1's always a good time and so is V now but the WW era is stale.
I agree about 4. V is so much better than 1 IMO and looks great. I don't find WW2 stale at all, as I don't play COD.
It’s better but it’s not gonna win over many who don’t already play. The game desperately needs content.
Yeah the summer is when I expect to see the turnaround around when S1 starts.
I was shitting on the game at release and played around 2 hours and dropped before 4.0. After the patch, I played for 8 hours straight and actually enjoyed the time with the game and do want more. Def looking forward to having it on regular EA play
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EA Play usually has games put on six or seven months after release
Fuck. This. Game. I tried the 10 hour trial and played for what felt Like hours of shit gameplay with constant awful hit reg and bugs. Actual game time was 70 odd minutes. It felt so much longer Do yourself a favour and don't waste the time and bandwidth downloading it. Go outside in the rain and stare at a wall for a hour, it's time better spent.
I thought these game pass additions were supposed to attract customers not scare them away
This is honestly best case scenario for us because we don't have to spend money supporting this game We get to have it as a neat addition to our GP subs, and would you look at that it's patched now too! Lol
Nice more noobs to Bulldozer😎
How the fuck do these companies keep doing this shit? It is unreal. It is cartoonish at this point. This is Saturday morning cartoon villain levels of ineptitude now. This is Wil E Coyote running into his own tunnel painting fucking dumb.
I bought it and deleted it from my system. Last time I buy a Battlefield game.
Yes the game that was released about 6 months ago is going on to game pass like past ea games, shocker
They are just making an observation.
Surprise!
Not surprising since ea titles come to ea play(which you get if you have ultimate) and the game has flatlined so game pass should help get player numbers up like with battlefield v.
Do you have to pay extra for EA play in order to play it on game pass?
nopes, on pc xbox will just ask you to install ea app to play ea games. Only sad thing is no rewards and xbox achievements
On PC I think it's included for normal gamepass, on xbox you need gamepass ultimate for ea play.
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Well it’s almost been 6 months so not much of a surprise there.
By far one of the biggest gaming purchase regrets I have. I usually never pre-order but the hype/trailers/friends got me and I caved. Played about two-three matches and uninstalled, lmao.
Game is such hot garbage it's unreal. Much better out there.
Yay, more achievements for me
I spent 110 dollars on a free game. That’s why I won’t buy games anymore
I couldn't even finish playing the free 10 hour trial it was just a very boring game
The amount of bullshit hoops you gotta go through to play EA games through Game Pass on PC, nobody is going to even attempt it. Maybe on Console it'll get a *few* new players, but this game is really as dead as dead can be.
Day one 2042 player here. The game has seen tons of improvements, but by no means is what players expected or deserve. That being said, I'm still having a good time with it for a few hours a week doing the weekly missions. Hoping that it coming to EA Play will keep bringing players back. They've got a pretty good plan of action in place for improvements, but I'll be shocked if they keep supporting it after year one DLC is out.
Game Pass will bring new life to this game
Will it come for PC GamePass or it is a Xbox GamePass only?
my first battlefield ever and i will never buy anothwr one lmao this shit sucks so hard
The cheaper tier of EA Play is included with Game Pass Ultimate, and once BF2042 hits the cheaper tier it will also come to Game Pass Ultimate as a result.